How Taking Down Legacy Failed
Mickie's P.O.V
"Let's go over this one more time, we sneak in, you distract Punk and the Nexus, I grab Justin and then we run" I said to Ted.
"Alright, but how should I distract them?"
"Start calling them names, like Windham, he doesn't like to be called Windham"
"Genius" Ted smirked.
"And then once I get Justin out we escape to Mexico"
"Why Mexico?"
"Because that's the land of all escapers" I told him, "Oh crap, Randy's coming, change the conversation"
"Erm…erm! What's that? You want me to do you in the butt?! That can be arranged, oh hi Randy" I elbowed Ted in the stomach, Randy glared at Ted and pulled me over to him. "I'll just be on my way…."
"Good idea" Randy said sternly, he watched Ted go off and then turned to me. "You ready to go?"
"Yep" I smiled and put Hayden down in his buggy. Randy reached out his hand and I took it. We walked down into the lobby. We were going on a walk, just to look around.
"Hey Orton!" We both turned around upon hearing Randy's well both of our surnames, John Morrison jogged up to us.
"What's up man?" Randy replied, giving John a man hug.
"We're actually off to go look around" John said, turning around to face his group.
"We were about to do the same thing" Randy said back to him.
"Really? Well do you want to come with us?" John asked, Randy turned around to me and then looked at John.
"Sure" Randy said, "We will be over in a minute" He told him, John smiled and walked away, Randy turned to me, "That's ok right?"
"I don't mind" I told him. He smiled and turned to walk towards the group when I stopped him.
"What's wrong?" He asked me.
"Why don't you ever man hug me?" I asked with my hands on my hips, "Am I not worthy of your man hugs?"
"No, I just like to do other stuff to you instead" He smirked and slapped my ass, before walking over to the group.
I moved the buggy and followed him; the group was John Morrison, Santino, Vladmir and Natalya. "Hey guys" Randy smiled and man hugged them all.
"Hey Evan! Over here!" John called out and that's when the smile on Randy's face faded and looked at me in disbelief.
"That's ok right?" I mocked him, "Be nice" I then warned him.
"Hey guys" Evan said, "Are we off now?"
"Yep, Randy and Mickie are coming too" Santino told him.
"Hey Randy, hey Mickie" He smiled at me.
"Hey Evan, long time no see" I said to him.
"I can't believe he is coming" Randy muttered to me as we walked out of the hotel.
"I swear Randy if you an asshole to him, I won't speak to you for like…. a week!
"Please" Randy scoffed, "Like you could keep to that"
"Want to risk that?"
"Mmm" Randy growled. I walked beside him as he started a conversation up with John. I kept walking until Hayden's buggy wheel went funny; I stopped to sort it out.
"Randy can you-" I looked up to see he was still walking with John; "Thanks for the help" I muttered and bent down to try and fix it.
"Need some help?" I looked up to see Evan. "Here" He said and moved down, I didn't know what he did, but it worked! "It happens to my sister's buggy all the time" He smiled.
"Thank you, that has been a pain in the ass for ages" I said and started walking again. "How are you doing?"
"Not too bad, how are you?"
"I'm good, I'm good" I looked up to see Randy had looked over his shoulder and saw me and Evan, he did not look happy.
"I've been seeing what Michelle and Layla have been doing" I turned my attention back to Evan, "I hope you don't take in anything they say"
"I'm not, they are just trying to pull me down, but it's not going to work, if anything they are motivating me to kick some serious ass" I replied and Evan laughed. We had now caught up with the rest of the group, Evan went to talk to Vladmir whilst Randy returned back to my side, he pulled me back a little so the rest of the group couldn't hear our conversation.
"So, how did end up away from the rest of the group with Evan?" He asked me, a little anger evident in his voice.
"Hey hey hey, don't get pissy with me; you're the one who didn't stop to help me with the buggy"
"What happened with the buggy?"
"The wheel went funny" I told him, "And when I asked you for your help you kept on walking, Evan stayed back an helped me"
"I didn't see."
"Well Evan did." I retorted. "Why do you have such a problem with him?"
"He likes you babe"
"Yeah, as a friend, you're being paranoid"
"No I'm not"
"Yes, you are." We walked into a bar and sat down, Randy took his seat next to me, making sure that Evan couldn't. I lifted Hayden out of his buggy and stood him between my legs, I had to hold him otherwise he would fall.
"He still can't walk?" John commented.
"He will do any day now" I replied.
"A bit of a late developer, don't you think?"
"No I don't." I retorted sternly.
"Sorry" John held his hands up, "Forgot how defensive you first mom's can be" Randy chuckled at this, I shot him a look. "I'm surprised you didn't bring your little follower along" He said, taking a sip of his beer.
"My follower?"
"He means Ted" Randy said.
"He is not my follower"
"Oh c'mon" John groaned, "He follows you around everywhere"
"He's my best friend"
"Really?" Morrison raised his brows, I don't like this guy.
"Really. I'm going to the bathroom"
"I'll come with" Natalya said as she stood up.
"Girls always go to the toilet together, it's so they can wang on about their periods" Morrison said and the rest of the group chuckled, including Randy, I wanted to strangle him.
As soon as we were out of ear shot I said to Natalya, "I hate that guy!"
"I know he is so rude" She commented. "You just want to strangle him"
"I know right" I checked my eye liner, "I excused myself here just to get away from his snarky comments"
We walked out for me only to be barged into and knocked into the wall. "Do you mind?" I snapped, I then came face to face with the noob
"Well maybe if you didn't take up the whole corridor" Morrison snapped back.
"Excuse me? What the hell is your problem?"
"Hey man, that isn't cool" Evan appeared and backed me up, I knew I always liked him!
"Whatever dude" Morrison waved us off and entered the restroom, he came out a second later like he only went in there to check his hair.
"Sorry about him, he has had too much to drink" Evan said. "He isn't normally like that"
"Could have fooled me" I replied bitterly. "You want to go back?" He nodded and we walked back over to our table. Hayden was there in his buggy, but Randy and John wasn't. "Hey, where's Randy?"
"Outside" Edge replied. I took Hayden and walked out, I looked right to see Randy, standing outside the bar, with Morrison, with a cigarette in his hand, a habit that he promised to give up when Hayden was born.
"Mickie!" Morrison called out, Randy's head snapped in my direction and a look guilty look came on his face. "Sorry about what happened outside the restroom, it was a misunderstanding, my bad"
"What happened outside the restroom?" Randy asked.
"We bumped into each other" Yeah and he was a complete ass.
"I'm going home" I told Randy.
I went to walk about, but he grabbed my wrist. "C'mon babe, stay" I pulled my wrist away, "Is it about this?" He held up his cigarette, "Babe you're completely over reacting"
"From the moment you say I do, wives think they control everything" Morrison laughed to himself.
I gave him a look of disgust and wheeled Hayden away, that MAN, I want to KILL him. I went back to the hotel alone.
Melina was in our hotel room when I walked in. "Where's Randy?"
"You mean dick? He's at the bar"
"Ooo you called him dick!"
"Damn straight!" I looked over at the monitor as I heard Hayden starting to stir, I smiled and got up to go get him, I opened the door gently to my room and saw him sitting up in his crib. "Good morning little dude" He looked up at me and smiled, "You're waking up in a happy mood! Yes you are, how was your sleep? Huh Mr four teeth?" He lifted up his arms and I picked him up. "Aww you have a sleepy face" He leaned his head on my shoulder, I kissed his head and carried him out.
"You're back early"
"I know"
"Any reason to that?"
"Like I said, Randy's a dick and I hate him"
"No you don't"
"Ok, I don't but he has annoyed me!"
"You think you have it bad? Me and Ted were cuddling and told him how smitten I was with him"
"Aww"
"He responded by giving me a wedgie"
"Oh."
"Yeah."
"Well….that's Ted's way of saying 'I love you too'"
"Mmm"
"This is random, but do you want to go to a dance class with me?"
"That is random" She laughed.
"I saw an advertisement on the way up here, you don't have to sign up, you just go, I feel like getting some anger out of my system" She looked unsure, "C'mon! It will be fun!"
"Fine! Give me ten minutes to change"
"Yey!" I hugged her and ran into my room to get changed. I put on leggings with a grey scoop neck t-shirt. "I'm ready!" I jumped out of my room and placed my hands on my hips.
"I want to come!" Ted moaned, "I've got a few moves of my own to show off you know"
"Well you can't, your babysitting Amelia and Hayden"
"Fine, I'll just start a dance class of my own, Mia, Hayden, prepare yourselves"
"You do that" I picked up Hayden and gave him a kiss, "Be good for Uncle Ted"
"Actually Mickie, I'm training for him to call Mr Handsome"
"Right….we're leaving" I grabbed Melina's arm.
"And 1 and 2..." We heard Ted say once we were outside.
"I feel sorry for them" Melina laughed.
"Me too" I chuckled. We went down to where the class was being held, it was open for any guest in the hotel. It was really fun! I haven't been dancing since I was a teen, I stopped when I started training for wrestling.
"Wow Mick" Melina panted, "How the hell did you keep up?"
I just shrugged and smiled at her. "Oh my god…..is that Randy Orton?" A woman who was doing the class with us said to her friend, I turned around to see Randy standing at the back of the hall with his hands in his pockets, leaning against the wall.
"Time to face the music" Melina said to me, "I'll see you upstairs"
I crossed my arms under my chest and walked over to him. "Hi" I said awkwardly.
"Hey" He pushed himself off the wall and offered me out his hand. "Can we talk?" I nodded and walked ahead of him, rejecting his hand gesture. We walked outside of the hotel and went to go in their garden. "Mick" He put his fingers around my wrist and pulled me into him. I tried to pull back but he wouldn't let me, "Don't be like this babe, I don't know what I've done wrong" I looked down not knowing what to say. "Is this about the smoking?"
"It wasn't just the smoking" I finally spoke. "It was the whole time being with them"
"You're the one who encouraged me to be more social"
"You sat back and watch as Morrison made jokes about your son"
"Babe I-"
"Strike two, you sat back and watched when Morrison disrespected me"
"I don't-"
"Strike three, you smoked, something you told me you would stop, but because Morrison had to do it, so did you"
"Is that what you think?" I didn't answer. "Babe, it wasn't John that brought it on" I stared at him, he sighed, "I haven't technically quit"
"What?"
"I've cut back, but I'm still smoking"
"But you said-"
"I know what I said and I tried, I did, but I shouldn't have told you something I wasn't too sure of myself" He told me.
"So why did you tell me?"
"Because I thought I could do it, but I can't quit cold turkey babe" He rubbed his hand up and down my arms. "I'm sorry" I looked down, "And as for the rest of that, what was I suppose to do babe? You yell at me for being too protective and then you yell at me for not being protective enough, you always telling me to let you fight your own battles so I don't know what I'm supposed to do" I pulled out of his grasp and faced away, I guess what he was saying was true. "I don't want to argue with you babe" He wrapped his arms around my waist from behind. "Let's just go upstairs and forget about it" He rested his chin on the crook of my neck, "I saw you dancing, I didn't know you were that good" I knew he was trying to get back in my good books, but I felt too stupid to talk, I didn't know whether I was right or wrong. "Babe…..are you sure you're not pregnant?"
I spun around to face him, "What?!"
"I mean, the last time you were on edge like this was when you were pregnant with Hayden"
"Randy" I chuckled slightly, "I'm not pregnant"
"It wouldn't kill you to check, I'll run down and go get you-"
"Randy" I said sharply, "I'm not pregnant" I said sternly.
"How can you be so sure?"
"Because…..I know" I gave him a look which I hope he caught onto, he did and nodded sadly. "We will have another baby, just not….now" I finished. "Let's go get the one baby we do have" I reached out my hand, he smiled and took it.